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In this Friday, Jan. 10, 2020 photo Idaho Administrative Rules Coordinator Dennis Stevenson poses in his office in Boise. An animosity-tinged power struggle between the Idaho House and Senate has had big ramifications for Stevenson, who for three decades has toiled in an agency most people didn't know existed. (AP Photo/Keith Ridler)

Idaho power struggle leads to big role for obscure employee

By KEITH RIDLER - Associated Press

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., heads to a briefing with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Defense Secretary Mark Esper and other national security officials on the details of the threat that prompted the U.S. to kill Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

McConnell on US-Iran strategy: ‘Let’s not screw it up’

By MATTHEW DALY and LAURIE KELLMAN - Associated Press

Budget override tops North Carolina Senate GOP wish list

By GARY D. ROBERTSON - Associated Press

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., joined from left by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Majority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., and Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, speak to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Mitch McConnell welcomes end to Nancy Pelosi’s ‘one-woman blockade’ on impeachment

By Alex Swoyer and Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

Melissa Koscielniak wears syringes all over her body during a protest at the state house in Trenton, N.J., Monday, Jan. 13, 2020. New Jersey lawmakers are set to vote Monday on legislation to eliminate most religious exemptions for vaccines for schoolchildren, as opponents crowd the statehouse grounds with flags and banners, including some reading &quot;My Child, My Choice.&quot; (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Vote on NJ bill to bar certain vaccine exemptions stalled

By MIKE CATALINI - Associated Press

Iowa Legislature back to talk taxes, workers, child care

By DAVID PITT - Associated Press

FILE - This Thursday, April 18, 2019 file photo shows special counsel Robert Mueller's redacted report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election as released in Washington. An Associated Press review shows the idea of Ukrainian interference took root during Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, was spread online and then amplified by Putin before some of America’s elected officials made it their truth. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

As trial nears, Trump keeps discredited Ukraine theory alive

By AMANDA SEITZ and ERIC TUCKER and RICHARD LARDNER - Associated Press

FILE - This Thursday, April 18, 2019 file photo shows special counsel Robert Mueller's redacted report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election as released in Washington. An Associated Press review shows the idea of Ukrainian interference took root during Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, was spread online and then amplified by Putin before some of America’s elected officials made it their truth. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

Against all evidence, debunked Ukraine theory endures

By AMANDA SEITZ and ERIC TUCKER and RICHARD LARDNER - Associated Press

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., arrives to meet with reporters following escalation of tensions this week between the U.S. and Iran, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Nancy Pelosi moves delay Senate impeachment trial start

By Alex Swoyer and Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., right, joined by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., left, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019 (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff should testify at Senate impeachment trial, Donald Trump says

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

In this July 31, 2019, file photo, then-National Security Adviser John Bolton speaks to media at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Nancy Pelosi: House could subpoena John Bolton

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2019 file photo, New South Carolina Senate President Harvey Peeler listens as former Senate President Pro Tempore Hugh Leatherman speaks in Columbia, S.C.. South Carolina lawmakers return to the Statehouse on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020 for the 2020 session with an agenda that looks a lot like what they tried to tackle in 2019.(AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)

2020 in the South Carolina Legislature a lot like 2019

By JEFFREY COLLINS - Associated Press

In this April 9, 2018 file photo, President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with then-National Security Advisor John Bolton in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington at the start of a meeting with military leaders. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

Trump signals he would challenge Bolton subpoena in Senate trial ‘for the sake of the office’

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., arrives at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Jan. 10, 2020. Pelosi hasn't relayed the articles of impeachment to the Senate for trial three weeks since President Donald Trump was impeached on charges of abuse and obstruction. Last night, she led the Democrat-controlled House in passing a measure limiting Trump's ability to take military action against Iran after he ordered the U.S. killing of a top Iranian general. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Nancy Pelosi folds, articles of impeachment to be transmitted to Senate next week

By Gabriella Muñoz and Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

FILE - This file photo combination shows Mike Espy, left, a former congressman and former U.S. agriculture secretary, on Oct. 5, 2018, and U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., on Nov. 5, 2018, both in Jackson, Miss. If Espy and Hyde-Smith win their respective party's primaries, they will face each other in the November 2020 general election. Hyde-Smith defeated Espy in a November 2018 special election. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Mississippi will have Democratic primary for US Senate

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press

In this Thursday Jan. 9, 2020 photo Polish Senate Speaker Tomasz Grodzki speaks to reporters in Warsaw, Poland. Following fall elections, Speaker Tomasz Grodzki, from the centrist opposition, has become the only politician with any real power to put up roadblocks to the populist ruling party as it seeks to exert full control of the judicial system. A prominent surgeon, Grodzki is using that role as much as he can, angering the government, which has been seeking to discredit him with claims he took bribes as a doctor. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish Senate speaker pushes back against bribe allegations

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., tells reporters he has secured enough Republican votes to start President Donald Trump's impeachment trial and postpone a decision on witnesses and documents Democrats want, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday Jan. 7, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Analysis: Pelosi’s delay tests public opinion on impeachment

By LISA MASCARO - Associated Press

The U.S. Capitol Building Dome is seen through a beveled window at the Library of Congress in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Senate Republicans work to get USMCA trade deal ready before Trump impeachment trial

By Alex Swoyer and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, is shown here on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., in this Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020, file photo. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Sen. Grassley: GOP chairmen feverishly making USMCA floor-ready

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2019 file photo, President Donald Trump turns to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., as he delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, as Vice President Mike Pence watches. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Sarah Sanders: Trump could taunt Nancy Pelosi over impeachment acquittal at State of the Union

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times